Donald Trump Has a Plan to Combat The ‘Deep State’ – Report

In an effort to combat the “deep state,” President Donald Trump is reportedly contemplating the creation of his own intelligence network.

According to an in-depth report by The Intercept, the Trump and CIA Director Mike Pompeo are looking to build a spy agency that would be more loyal to the Trump administration.

The proposed spy network would work separately from U.S. intelligence agencies and gather its own independent data.

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Under the plan, former Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Blackwater founder Erik Prince would run the agency.

“Pompeo can’t trust the CIA bureaucracy, so we need to create this thing that reports just directly to him,” an unnamed former senior U.S. said about the plans. “It is a direct-action arm, totally off the books.”

“The whole point is this is supposed to report to the president and Pompeo directly,” the source added.

According to several current and former intelligence officials, as well as others familiar with the matter, Prince and North have presented the Trump administration with a set of proposals that would establish the private spy network, which would independently collect its own data and report directly to Pompeo and Trump.

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The concept of the plan is to counter alleged “deep state” enemies within the intelligence community that seek to undermine the Trump White House.

A few of the individuals involved with the proposal met with major Trump donors privately and asked them to assist in financing the operation before any official contracts were signed, according to The Intercept.

The plan would employ a collection of spies with no official cover in several countries considered “denied areas” for American intelligence personnel, including Iran and North Korea.

While nothing official has been set, two former senior intelligence officials say Pompeo is supportive of the plan and has lobbied the Trump administration to approve the contract.

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However, a spokesperson for the CIA has called the report “wildly inaccurate.”

“I can find no evidence that this ever came to the attention of anyone at the NSC or (White House) at all,” said Michael N. Anton, a spokesperson for the National Security Council.

Aligning with his image as a political outsider working against establishment elements, Trump has long bemoaned that the deep state — an entrenched bureaucracy within the U.S. spy agency — has been working against his agenda.

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The Republican president brought the subject back to the public’s attention with a series of tweets in late November.

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